Gibson v. Hammang

Pound, C.

Mrs. Sarah Gibson, the original plaintiff in this cause, was a widow, about seventy-eight years of age, residing at Los Gatos, California. She was the owner of the property on which she lived at Los Gatos, a store building there, some stock in a bank and in a water company, and some improved property in Omaha in this state, — in all, if we may judge by the value of her estate when she died, not very long subsequent to the transaction here in question, worth about $18,000. In April, 1896, the defendant, her daughter, who lived in Omaha, came to visit her and remained about six weeks,…